Category: The Haiku Challenge

PS: ! THIS EVENT REPEATS EVERY YEAR AND I HOPE TO SEE THE SAME SUPPORT EVERY YEAR !

What is Haiku Challenge?The Haiku Challenge is a Haiku writing challenge that runs in the month of February every year. Write a Haiku or set of Haiku every day and share them in the linky tool to enjoy the words.

How it began?As February being the month of love, I decided myself to express my love for Haiku, after penning down close to one hundred Haiku the love for it has become immeasurable and that made me throw a Challenge to myself, ‘The Haiku Challenge!’ in 2011.

The Journey…!The Haiku challenge began it’s journey in February 2011, a sweet journey and aw, my sweet child is aging two now. I consider the journey as a sweet achievement as it helped to discover talents, and helped me to find some pearls.

To know about the first edition of Haiku Challenge, Winners and to read participation entries stop by here. To read the kickoff post, and prompts given in this edition stop here. To read the participation entries stop here.

Summary…!I thought it was my dream when reading you but now I realize that it happened in real while drafting this. It was fun, 29 days of fun with Haiku, exploration of different signatures of Haiku (Haiga, Acrostic Haiku, Pi-Ku, Naisaiku and Haibun). I hope you enjoyed writing for the challenge as much as I did when hosting the challenge, if not then I should call it as Failure of Haiku Challenge and not Success!

In this edition, 45 of you registered for the challenge, 54 challenged, 22 of you completed the challenging challenge colourfully and made this challenge a grand success! Three Cheers to all!!! Thank you!

I love numbers and I’ve been known to cherish stats a lot. In this edition, we had 29 days, 28 challenging themes, 7 different forms, and the poets kick started the challenge expressing their love for words. In all, we read 54 poets, 1001 entries ~ (1706 Haiku); that’s an average of 35 entries (59 Haiku) each day. The minimum entry was 29 entries on Day 25, 26 & 27 and the maximum entry was 41 entries on Day 1, 2 and 9. Considering the count of Haiku, the least was 34 on Day 7 and the maximum entry was 108 on Day 23.

I must thank everyone for adding smile to my heart! Now, it is my turn to return the favours by crowning ‘KING OF HAIKU’, ‘QUEEN OF HAIKU’, ‘STAR NEWBIE OF THE CHALLENGE’, ‘CHEERFUL CHALLENGER’, ‘FAVOURITE CHALLENGER’, ‘FIRST SWEET CHALLENGER’ and ‘LAST SWEET CHALLENGER’.

Thanks for making my job easier with your precious votes. Here we go….

**************************************************************THE KING OF HAIKU CHALLENGE…**************************************************************Ready…………………………………..

There was a healthy competition between three contenders (Becca Givens, Pranali Kadam and Grace), Grace went past others with a heavy shower of votes (5 at a stretch) to win the Title. Congrats Grace, you deserve the title, ‘QUEEN’…

There was a healthy competition between three contenders (Asni (A Walk in my Heart), Valli (Reflection of my feelings) and Vidya Sury) and Asni won the title in the end. Congrats Asni (A Walk in My Heart), you have won many hearts with your words…

None other than a person who dominated others right from the start. She is a true winner as she has won hearts with her encouraging words. As I say, ‘I personally feel that appreciation is the best food for a blogger hunger, in that perspective I thank you for feeding me. I also feel critics will help a human being touch heights. So be my best critic’, she did the best, give a big hand of becca givens who garnered 80% of the votes.

She penned ‘Blank Verses and Invisible Lines’ to conquer the heart of many people. She has stolen the heart under three categories by garnering votes under all the categories, ‘Queen, Star Newbie and Cheerful’. Here we welcome our Favourite Challenger Pranali Kadam, Kudos to you…

7 out of 29 days, she came in last to join the challenge and completed the challenge colourfully. Thank you, ‘BLOSSOM VYDRINA’

Life is made easy for you

**************************************************************TIME TO AWARD THE CHALLENGERS WHO DEDICATED THEIR TIME TO COMPLETE THE HAIKU CHALLENGE COLOURFULLY**************************************************************Ready…………………………………..

Suddenly I am feeling bad because the haiku challenge has come to an end, which means I’ve to wait for one more year to see you people write for my prompt, that’s sad and I am going to miss my HAIKU family members terribly, oh God please do not do this to me. I wish to host the challenge that can last long for 365 days but I cannot do it in my early twenties, maybe I can do it in my late forties, and if I do that, I wish to see you people participating.

This journey has been a great learning experience because I have tried different forms with great people in the world of haiku poetry and I am very happy to do that. Thanks for blessing me such sweet opportunities, ie., to read you, smiles.

Please verify your links here and leave a comment if any of the links are missing. I also offer people to write for those days, which they missed due to some personal or technical issues. Here is the chance to catch up with other challengers and to complete the challenge. Write individual posts for those days you failed or missed to write (1 to 5) and leave the links as comments mentioning the day number. (Ex: YOUR NAME – DAY NUMBER) (Sample – Someone is Special ~ Day 10) PS: THE MINIMUM CATCH UP CAN BE ONE AND THE MAXIMUM CAN BE FIVE.

If you have not voted still then please vote here because the voting ends by MARCH 1st 23:39. Any votes after that will not be considered while counting. If you have voted already, thanks! Also, I promise to release the results by March 10 or 11 with surprises, so BE READY TO BE SURPRISED!

So that we have come to an end to this challenge, I thank you for writing..! Thanks and with this post the challenge enters Day 29.. The challenge begins at 12 AM or 00:00 IST and goes on until the next day 23:59 IST, ie., MARCH 1st 23:59 IST), and three cheers to all the challengers! Write a Haiku for the Theme or Word – ‘Journey’ and share your Haiku Post Direct Link here in the linky tool or in comment section of this post, if Linky tool is not available. You can also tweet your Haiku as | Haiku | #FMHCD29 @FewMiles

Are you ready for The Haiku Challenge 2012? The prompts are out, rules are set, for more details visit HERE, and the challenge enters Day 28 with this post.. The challenge begins at 12 AM or 00:00 IST and goes on until GMT-08:30AM (i.e., the next day 02:00 PM or 14:00 IST), so all the time zones can participate in this challenge,and three cheers to all the challengers! Write a Haiku, and a poetry form of your wish, say Naisaiku, Villanelle or any form of Poetry for the Theme or Word – ‘YOUR BLOG NAME’ and share your Haiku Post Direct Link here in the linky tool or in comment section of this post, if Linky tool is not available. You can also tweet your Haiku as | Haiku | #FMHCD28 @FewMiles

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I’m Saravana Kumar Murugan (Sarav), author of romantic novel "Coffee Date", Sixteen and Half (a collection of short stories), and love and honey (collection of poems); a rollout manager by profession, a writer by passion and a photographer by choice. I write under a pen name Someone is Special, as my pen name is a sweet dedication to a dream angel. I am born in this world to express my dreams, I do so as poems and prose. I do prefer poetry as it helps me to rhyme what I love to, and attain peace.

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